Can Amazon Compete With The Google eBookstore
Amazon did not let Google’s eBookstore launch go quietly. The online giant put out a press release yesterday afternoon saying that two of Oprah’s Book Club picks, are free eBooks from Charles Dickens in the Kindle Store. It should be noted that A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations are both in the public domain and there are free versions available all over the place including from Project Gutenberg and Barnes & Noble.
But the underlying conceit of the press release seemed to be that Amazon wanted to gain some headlines on a day when Google launched some steep competition.
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